The Trump administration is taking the first steps to dismantle a Biden-era land-use plan in southwest Wyoming that critics said focused too much on conservation while limiting energy development and mining.
Wyoming Republican Gov. Mark Gordon announced late Wednesday that the Bureau of Land Management had notified his office and other cooperating agencies that it plans to revise the Rock Springs resource management plan approved last year.
BLM confirmed that the agency is preparing to reopen the plan — which governs activities on 3.6 million acres of public lands in the state — for possible amendment, but did not offer details on when and what changes will be considered. “We will be sure to share updated information as it becomes available,” the bureau said in a statement.
Gordon said in a news release that BLM notified his office — along with other federal and state agencies and elected officials — that it will publish a Federal Register notice of intent “in the coming days” that will give “the public another opportunity to weigh in on the plan.” Since the plan was first proposed in 2023, it has sparked an unusually fierce backlash within the state.
